Simpson's Program, Not Social Security, Victimizes the Young

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Ruben Navarrette, Jr., a CNN contributor, reports today that his former teacher, Alan Simpson, taught that "For too long younger workers have been taken apart" by Social Security because they do not vote in adequate numbers.

In the Simpson view, Social Security is a "massive intergenerational transfer of wealth... Every generation pays for the preceding one."What a shocker! Does he really mean to say that, in our working years, we help pay for the modest Social Security benefits received by the parents who fed, clothed, educated and housed us? Further, does the Senator assert that we might be helping sustain our grandparents who did the same for our parents? And, does he assert that when we get to retirement, the young people will help pay for us as we paid for our predecessors?  What perfidy. What selfishness.  What a rip off. No wonder he calls seniors "greedy geezers."

Simpson's Program, Not Social Security, Victimizes the Young